Today was a town day. We woke up early and headed the 14 miles downhill into Seiad Valley. The first 8 miles were along a nice flowing creek and it was super humid. I was sweating even at 7 in the morning.
The trail pops out at a campround along the creek where a 6 mile road walk begins into town. All PCT hikers HATE road walks. This one was particularly bad. At this point, as the crow flies, Seiad Valley was about a half of a mile across a river but the road walk took us about 3 miles way east to a bridge then back 3 miles to town.
The road walk even included some highway walking without a shoulder. I was very suprised that the official PCT runs along this road. Seemed a bit dangerous.
One we got in down, the famous Seiad Valley cafe was waiting for us. The cafe is famous for a pancake challenge which consisted of eating 5, one pound pancakes in 2 hours. If you complete it, the meal is free. There have only been 5 or so finishers in the last 15 years and only 1 in the past 3.5 years.
The pancakes were massive! Both in diameter and thickness!
Minor struggled....in 45 minutes he had almost compelted one of the five pancakes...
He took a few breaks to go outside and try not to puke while I finished my own large portioned breakfast.
After the 2 hours were up, Minor gave me one of his pancakes, I ate 3/4 of one pretty quickly, even after my breakfast earlier. Now I wish I had done the challenge.
The RV resort next to the cafe allows hikers to hang out and camp there. There is a TV room and showers. We spent the rest fo the day there hanging out. It was extremely hot!
We had planned on hiking out tonight, but decided to stay the night and hike out early tomorrow morning. There is a HUGE climb out of this valley and we decided early in the morning would be the best time to do it.
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